Sharing files between VMWare XP installation and Kubuntu

[Hamish]

On Saturday 16 September 2006 18:59, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> How would I go about moving files between Kubuntu and an installtion
> of XP on VMWare? Until now I've been using a USB drive, but now I need
> to move a 1 GB file and it doesn't fit. I thought about using FTP with
> the server on Kubuntu and the client on XP. But, what IP address do I
> access Kubuntu with?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dotan Cohen
> http://ie-only.com

Hi Dotan
The easy (TM) way to do this would be to find out what ip address the windows 
guest has (open a command prompt in xp, then type 'ipconfig'), then connect 
to it from konqueror via smb://username@ip.add.re.ss/c$ where username is an 
administrative user, ip.add.re.ss is the ip of the guest and c$ is the 
administrative share for a drive (can be d$, e$ etc as well). If you cannot 
connect like that, go to the xp guest, browse to the folder you want to copy, 
right-click and choose sharing, and share the folder. Once that is done, you 
can connect with konq again to smb://user@ip/sharename. Remember that you 
will need to check the box "allow network users to modify these files" or 
something similar if you want to copy files *to* the xp guest. 
HTH
H
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